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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Today we Americans and our friends around the world should pause and remember those lost in the attacks on 9/11/01. We each do this in our own way, and some people commemorate the day a little differently. Some people, for example, make a cake:

I've received several different pictures of this cake - each taken from a different angle - so it's obviously getting a lot of attention from passers-by. Some believe this is just the baker's way of using his unique skills to make a tribute. Others think it's disrespectful: halfway through serving those towers the cake is going to look pretty darn macabre. Personally, I'm on the fence. I see the skill involved, and I think the baker's motives are pure, but in execution I can see why so many are offended.

as long as they would never actually SELL that cake to be eaten, then I don't see much of a problem with it, honestly. It's the baker's way of showing they care. But to serve it and eat it would be very disrespectful.

Total wreck. You're right, there's no doubt that the creators of this cake had good intentions...but like so many of the other items in this blog, they completely forgot that this thing is cut up and served to people. -Alex B

How can eating a cake be disrespectful? We're all sorry for those involved in 9/11. So, let's be trusting that the baker meant his or her very best, did a fine job, and let it go at that. I'd eat a piece of this cake, no problem.

I'm hoping it's only one of those "Decorative" cakes, that are only designed to look good, not be consumed. Or at least that the towers aren't meant to be eaten, because, short of being really REALLY morbid, I can't imagine people willingly hacking into the towers to eat them.

At best, I would suggest the cutting take place off-site, out of view of anyone, or simply do not serve the towers, serve the base only. I think the intentions are simply to commemorate and not to offend, but in light of the situation, and what occurred, maybe the baker lacked a little foresight as to what the cake would look like in the process.Wreck, no. Slightly misguided, probably.

I'm not sure if I'd go so far as to say "disrespectful" (though it depends on where it's being served. What town was it taken in?), but I do know that I would feel very, very uncomfortable cutting into one of those towers.

I don't find this offensive, but I guess I can see where someone might. I think we honor those who died by remembering the day and marking what happened with moments of silence, prayers, candle-light vigils, etc. This cake is a personal expression of the memory and I think they had every intention of honoring the memory, not dessicrating it. Perhaps its not even meant to be eaten.

I think that the baker did a good job and had good intentions. Everyone is different, different things offend different people, and my suggestion would be if a tribute like this is something a person feels is in poor taste, they shouldn't buy it. But just because they think it's in poor taste doesn't mean others out there might not think of it in good taste, and want to buy it because of that.

I don't really think the baker was thinking this through. I understand that they were trying to make a tribute to those lost, but my God! Did no one tell them that maybe cake was the wrong medium. As you said those towers are going to look a mess once they are cut into. To me, a lifelong NYC resident, this is incredibly disrespectful. Cake is supposed to be happy, this cake makes me want to cry.

I don't think the cake is a wreck...and I get your point. In my opinion cake is normally used for celebration. (At funerals you usually see pie) It seems weird to me that you would have cake and ice cream today to remember 9/11.

I agree that the talent is there, but it is a little crude to make a cake out of a symbol of such sorrow, especially since slicing the pieces will make it resemble the fall of the buildings as the cake-fest progresses. How is that honoring the lives taken? You can't honor a tragedy by eating cake.

This is a wreck! Can you imagine what will happen when you start cutting into those towers? They will fall. Too much like the real thing-it would be awful. Who needs/wants to relive those moments again? If they had put the towers flat on the cake like a picture, I could deal with it much better.

I can understand the hesitancy see, but like you, I see the skill and tribute as well. It's not like it's showing the actual attack. We all make tributes to this day in our own way: through our blogs, photographs, music, so why not in a cake?

It does look nice, and I can understand the spirit in which it was made, but you're right about how it's going to look when it is served. It will look like the twin towers are coming down again. Kind of twisted if you think about it...

When something dramatic happens, we pay tribute in the best way we know how, utilizing our individual talents. Some do it through music, or writing, or painting, or just by simple, quiet personal reflection. This cake is a tribute made in the way the person knows best, which is beautiful in its own way.

How it will look when eaten, however, is a little macabre, you're right.

The first question that popped into my mind (well the second actually, the first was WTF?) was, "how do you serve the towers?" I see two equally tasteless options. The first is you simply slice pieces out of the towers as you serve, creating a slow motion replay of the real life events. The second would be to take one of the towers off the base, lay it horizontal, slice and serve.

Well, here's another item to consider in the same vein: Top Design on Bravo tv last night (the night before the anniversary of 9/11) had its competing interior designers decorate bomb-shelter bunkers - part of the winning criteria was "cheerfulness" and whether one would want to spend fifty years in them....Ugh...

I'm on the fence too. I love love love the bakery this came from, so I give them a little leeway based on that. Also, I can further give them benefit of the doubt and say perhaps this was ordered by a customer and not something they made up of their own volition? If so, not a wreck, because it's well-executed.

Still, I can't get past the fact that it's tackier than ten tons of shit.

Not sure. There is the old adage: "pain + time = humor." Don't know if it is too soon to make with the 9/11 commentary. Then again, no one thought that eating the towers was in poor taste? At least there weren't tiny plastic people on it...

What I don't understand is why people get so bent out of shape when someone burns a flag, yet nobody bats an eye when someone suggests you EAT the flag.

Maybe I'd understand if I was an American, but I know for sure that wearing the US flag as clothing and using it in advertisements is a federal offense in the US that nobody enforces. Not sure about rendering it in icing but surely cutting it up into bite size chunks and serving it to people is worse than burning it. Unless it's some sort of patriotic version of Communion.

There you go, hopefully I covered off anybody who wasn't offended by the actual cake.

You pose an interesting question...the cake is rather well done, and looks good BEFORE being cut. However, I think the cutting up of the towers and consuming them might be a little much. I'd say not a wreck in theory, but definitely a wreck in execution. Much like the famous realistic baby cake. Looks nice...would feel weird eating it.

I agree that the baker was well-intentioned. I'm sure that no disrespect was meant at all. IMHO, this well-executed cake misses the mark with class for just the reasons you mentioned. Who wants to look at the towers become a mess of crumbs and think of that association, let alone *eat* it?

The cake would have been a nice commemorative without the towers, with just the flag and banners. I could eat the American flag without feeling sad.

Without knowing the creator it's hard to make a judgement either way.I'd like to think that this person wanted to make a tribute and thier best skill was decorating...is that any different than a singer composing a song, or a film-maker creating a movie?

Perhaps I shouldn't be offended, but I am. I understand the need to make a tribute but hang a poster for goodness sake. My parents were both military and I have always been told that it is disrespectful to use the American flag for anything other than its intended purpose (ie. wearing it, having an american flag towel, etc.) so I can't imagine that eating it is any better.

@kevinsky - "a patriotic version of Communion"? Ok, that made me chuckle. You present an interesting point, though. I guess cake flags are Ok because they are usually served during times of national celebration, whereas flag burnings are always a form of protest. Huh.

I think an American Flag would suffice as a memorable tribute. How could you eat that cake and not feel guilty? The baker probably had the best of intentions, and may not even intend to eat it, but then how could you just throw it away?

I, personally, see it as a tribute, and I think it's kind of sweet,(they even included a dedication off to the side). Sure, maybe they would have been better using something else as the towers, but they didn't, so why can't we just take it as it is: a tribute to the fallen men and women of a terrible tragedy.

My inital reaction was disbelief. But the more and more I look at it, the more impressed I am by that ballsy baker who took a chance. Bravo, baker. We all remember today differently, and this is just another way to commemorate. What's the difference if she'd cast a bronze statue or made this cake?

The difference is that we wouldn't be having this discussion if it had been a bronze cast. Let's all be a little more open to expression, eh?

What's that saying?? The road to hell is paved with 9/11 cakes? I think the baker probably meant well but strategically it was not a good move. Seriously. I don't ever remember seeing Pearl Harbor Day cake or a Holocaust cake, but perhaps I have been running in the wrong (or should I say right) circles.

I don't understand wha tthe big deal is. I see the cake a a lovely tribute by an artist who used his/her skills and preferred medium to relay that tribute. I'd have no problem eating the cake (base OR towers) either. It's cake, it's meant to be eaten. As long as it was disassembled off-site and sliced and served (much like they do wedding cakes) instead of being hacked into, I just don't see the problem.

I really do not think it is offensive at all. Perhaps it was never intended to be eaten. A baker was using his medium as a form of expression. If this was any other type of artist there woud be no issue. I think that just having the cake in the window and not actually serving it is a very nice tribute.

I'm coming to this post a bit late, but I'm sure that if someone took the care and time to make a cake like this, they didn't do so with the intention of selling it. And depending on their views on wasting food, they probably wouldn't eat it, either.

I don't see any problem with an artist creating a tribute like this with their preferred medium. The fact that the medium in question is cake is immaterial.

Nowadays it's almost impossible to do anything without offending someone. However, that said, I think that this cake is totally tasteless (pun intended). Obviously the creator of this cake wasn't using his or her head...

Ok, looks like no one commented on this: someone mentioned that it is good there was no little plastic plane on the cake... but I wondered about the white bands around each of the towers. Are those meant to represent the particular floors that were hit or something!? Egads!!!

I honestly think some people just *want* to be offended. It's a cake. It's on public display in the window of a business. If the baker thought it would be offensive then he's no businessman. Take it in the way it was obviously intended.

If you want offence, check out the lighters for sale in Asia that are shaped like the twin towers. When you flick them, little LEDs flicker on the upper storeys and it plays a tune.

Even if it is offensive, we live in a part of the world where we have freedom - we can bake cakes in whatever form we choose. And really, that's one of the most important things we should remember and celebrate - our freedoms. We start stopping originality like this and the terrorists win.

So I think wreck yes - but at least we can make political cake wrecks without losing our liberty. And that's worth a slice in celebration in my books.

Think of it as comfort food.I know I ate alot of food on the day it happened. (I also drank alot and smoked [cigs] alot and cried alot. You get the picture.)So, I'm kind like our blogger patron Jen here,kind of on the fence about the whole thing.I guess someone is going to have to confence me to either one side or the other. ((((Le sigh!))))I can just see it now.

I don't think it's offensive. People commemorate and honor what happened on 9/11 in different ways... how else would you expect a cake decorator to do so? There is nothing offensive about it. Putting the towers on a cake is no different than showing a picture of them on television.

Now, at first I thought the cake said "Merry 9/11 2001!" which would have been pretty offensive =P. But I just misread it.

My general impression of this cake as inappropriate have already been repeated several times in the comments, so let me just add this: If you could get past the fact that they were the WTC towers, would you want to eat something with that much black frosting in the first place? I didn't think so.

The towers could be "dummies", too, covered in fondant; you see that a lot in display cakes (since they need to last longer than actual cake). I choose to see this as a tribute rather than a wreck, because I think that the intention was an honourable one, and that the odds are low anyone had planned to serve it up.

I can see that the baker meant it as a tribute - it's quite lovingly made- but I think it's a poorly thought out concept that wouldve been far more appropriate without the towers. Im sure everyone would be able to tell what it was a tribute to without displaying the actually towers anywhere, we all know what this date means - all over the world we remember. I dont think any malice was intended, this person is simply using their talents to memorialize the day the best the way they know but it's a bit insensitive.

on one level it looks good, but on another level I think it's not well thought out. Sincere emotions behind it, but little thought as to reactions at the thought of cutting up and eating the symbolic towers.I thought Americans weren;t allowed to subject their flag to mistreatment. So how about cutting up the cake with the flag on it and eating it?Not a wreck. The cake and decoration are very well done with a lot of attention to detail. Looks like an honest attempt at commemoration that backfired.I too am glad there are no plastic planes involved.

Honestly people, it's not meant to be eaten. DUH. I cannot believe some of you would say this is "tacky and insensitive" when it's QUITE obvious that the baker had only the best of intentions. You should never, EVER insult someone's way of paying tribute when you don't know the motives behind it. So get off your high-horses and show a little respect towards the baker. Geez.

I'm not utterly offended, but in my opinion, cake in our culture signifies celebration. We don't make fancy decorated cakes for funerals or other sad occasions. I think that's what freaks people out about this.

I'm not offended and don't think it's particulary offensive in general. But I do wonder how anyone could eat a piece of that cake (much less the towers themselves) with that huge knot in their stomach already.

Maybe that is something the baker should take into consideration - much like the other wrecks of head and apparently dead animals...does the cake itself destroy your appetite?

Strangely, Reid, it reminded me of this Onion article... I'm going to have to call the whole thing tasteless. I won't call it disrespectful because the intention was obviously the opposite... but even if the towers are meant to be "decorative", tragedy should not be rendered in icing.

your posters confuse me. they seemed more than willing to eat a baby shower cake that was pretty down right graphic and said that it was funny, but they can not appreciate a cake that shows people NO i have not forgotten this day? i rather eat party of a building then a piece of cake with nipple on it. i find nothing wrong with this cake and i do not know why everyone has to say EVERYTHING is politically incorrect nowadays. hope everyone who finds this tasteless also throws a fit when eating pieces of baby at a shower.

I don't find it particularly offensive or tasteless. Lots of people remember things in different ways and this person's talent happens to be cake. Now if there'd been a little marzipan plane in the side of one of the towers it might be a bit more tasteless.I was just trying to figure out the toasted coconut or maybe crushed nuts on top of the buildings...odd touch. I guess for a change of color?

I would never eat or buy that cake, but I agree that the person who made it really felt that they were doing a great thing. They didn't put enough thought into it, or they would never have made it, but I really think it was someone who felt they were showing their spirit.

Tacky, yes. Offensive, no. Like you said, their heart was in the right place. I myself would have chosen to commemorate the date and show my respect in a different way, but as you said, everybody chooses to commemorate the day in their own way.-r-

Holy Comments Batman!Just to toss a thought in... The cake is in a window... how often are the display cakes actually ever eaten? And in what other way can a cake baker show support? Its unlikely that the baker has a flag to fly at half mast. I believe that this is the bakers way of showing support.

I think it's tacky in execution but the motive was probably good-- the baker had good intentions, and I doubt it's a cake to be sold for eating.

I do think they would have gotten the point across just fine without the towers, whether cake or plastic. It's 9/11; I think people would understand the tribute even if the cake were simply an American flag with no writing.

Still, I do think the baker had good intentions with this. Admittedly it reminds me of 'The Onion' when the 9/11 events occurred-- one of the satires featured being about a housewife who, feeling helpless and unknowing about what she could do, baked an American flag pie.

We all serve with our own talents, right? I think the cake is fine. I'm not quite sure what memorial service would be appropriate to serve cake at, but if they took it out back to cut it, no one would even see the towers being cut apart.

I'm also willing to entertain the idea that the towers aren't really cake. I see that a lot on Ace of Cakes where they frost a styrofoam block to look like a cake so they don't have to cut apart everyone's favorite elephant or whatever. Maybe this works the same way?

I see this as a tribute, done in the way the artist knows best. It's just a piece of art.

In all honesty, I don't see eating the cake as disrespectful. It's a cake. It's not the real towers... It's no more disrespectful to eat the pastry towers than it is to use the materials from the WTC to make a ship. Cake is for eating. Get over the symbolism.

people LOVE to be affended these days! if it were made out of clay and then rolled up into a ball afterwards would everybody go crazy for that too? it's a tribute done in the artist's medium-cake. the end.

It's a tribute! A painstakingly made cake to sit in a window to show that they care. It's touching that they went to the effort. I really don't think it was made to be cut into at all. Some of you people need to chill out.

I don't know anything about cakes, but wouldn't cakes that small stacked as high as the towers be really heavy? Like might topple over since they're so heavy? So wouldn't they have to be something else or unservable because they have a rod sticking through them?

I dont think it will be eaten. It could be Styrofoam under there.It is a nice thought, though I could see how it could be taken the wrong way. But everything can be taken the wrong way.~Hylahttp://earthyfinds.blogspot.com

i get the impression that it's a decorative cake. one that is going to sit in the window of the shop. with that in mind, it's perfectly acceptable. it's art. like the movies, paintings, and other tributes done about 9-11.

well, I get what they meant to do, but I'm with you, it will look pretty bad once people start to eat it. Maybe they could take off the towers before they start cutting the cake? That might make it worse...

I think that the cake is an amazing tribute to what happened 7 years ago. Mad props to the baker on this!! Now if it was meant to be eaten or not... Who cares... I agree with the "Let them Eat Cake!!!"

This is a work of art by an artist. I personally wouldn't eat it- but I don't think that is the point. I think it is the person's way of saying that even while they continue in their trade (which is what we were told to do in the days following 9/11/01) they are thinking about those lives that were lost.~Michele

I'm assuming that the towers are styrofoam and meant to be kept rather than eaten. After all, today part of what we should remember is to be tolerant, and in that vein I choose not to assume the artist was trying to be tacky.

Horrifying. I sincerely doubt that this is meant to be eaten. I must believe that it's a one day display. That said, I think it would be fine to make a sheet cake with tribute words on it since that is the medium in which a baker would express their tribute...but the towers? Nooooo. Baaaaad.

yeah, i'm with the posters who don't like it. i was in disbelief when i saw the photo. you're right, jen: it took skill, but 1/2 way through, well, hate to say it, but then it *will* really resemble that horrid day...uck.

I can only hope the cake-cutter slices both buildings at the base, and perhaps cuts them elsewhere?

Who cares...I seems people are too sensitive about everything. So, do you guys hate those posters that say never forget that show the towers? No...Does anyone ban a movie because it has the towers in it? No...I think the designer was trying to use the imaeg because it means a lot to people. Just because it is cake, doesn't make it 'tastless'. frankly, I didn't even notice that today was 9/11. I think people just need to move on. It was a terrible day, so stop trying to relive it.

I think it was a baker using his art to provide a tribute. I can appreciate the feelings that some express about it feeling macbre if eaten. I say if it was supposed to be eaten, then either cut it away from the public or just eat the sheet cake

The moment the cake is cut, it is wrong. Cakes are meant to be part of a celebration, not part of a memorial. I don't believe the baker meant to be insensitive, but a cake as a tribute to something so terrifying is inappropriate.

That is so tacky...truly awful. The incredible pain, devastation and horror that was September 11th does not belong on a sugar confection. I don't care how well meaning the baker was...this is just stupid.

To the posters that say cakes are for celebration, pies are for funerals, has obviously never been to a Southern funeral or a wake.

The large gathering after the funeral service IS a celebration of the person who passed, where you exchange happy memories, eat lots of good food, comfort each other, and enjoy wonderful cake. It's FOOD. It's COMFORT. No one feels guilty for smiling or laughing. You're brought together in your respect and love for the people that passed.

I see nothing wrong with this cake, even if the towers are made to be edible. I feel, however, that it is a cake made only for display, and it was beautifully done.

My brother died in the towers, and I find this incredibly tacky, tasteless, insensitive, and crass. Cakes are usually meant to celebrate a happy occasion; and this is a day of sorrow for me, my family, and our friends, as well as the families and friends of all of the other victims in all of the 9/11 tragedies.

I don't think it's offensive if taken care of appropriately. In short, you present the cake as is. THen when it is to be cut, you remove it to the kitchen, cut the ENTIRE cake into squares, and present the cut pieces. This is what my local bingo hall did when presented with a sheet cake shaped like the US flag and some objected to cutting into it and leaving squares and vacancies visible.

The intention was to honor those who gave their lives and the buildings that were destroyed, not the ones who did the destroying.

Making a 9-11 cake in the shape of an airplane. Now that would be offensive.

My only concern is the gray icing. I can't even imagine what flavor that could be.

It's tasteless, as many have already said, for exactly the same reason the baby/dog/photorealistic-severed-head cakes are tasteless. It's one thing for an artist to make a tribute the only way he knows how, but some media just aren't appropriate.

The assumptions are this is a bakery window and it has icing so it HAS to be a cake. Could be styrofoam or cardboard or plastic under there. It's very square and my guess is the deisgner wouldn't feel right eating a real cake either. I think it is a beautiful piece of tribute art done for display only and accurate in design. And for those that mentioned them...the stick on top is one of the antennae that was on top of one of the towers and the "windows" are actually bands of metal that were part of the tower design. If you look at any picture of the original towers those things are quite prominent. Take it as a memorial and not a dessert people!

I think the baker used his/her art to make a tribute and I can't get too worked up over it as it appears to me to be a window display only. Debris from the real WTC ended up in dumps so even if the cake is thrown away, it's hardly disrespectful.

And the last 7 funerals I have gone to (yeah, been a rough couple of years for the family), there have been bakery-decorated cakes afterwards. I've seen "We Love You", "We will miss you" and like tributes on them. Perhaps it's becoming a more accepted thing.

Looking at the picture again has me wondering - is it even a real cake? Or is it all foam or cardboard, decorated? If it wasn't meant to be sold (and it would be pretty impossible to transport like that), I can't imagine a baker going to the trouble of actually making a cake.

I think it's just a decorated form, no different than any other statue or painting. I'd bet anything it's not even cake.

Not offended in the least. It's not as though the baker stuck a plane in the side. Honestly I feel like people are so rigidly opposed to mentioning 9/11 in any original context. How is this cake any more tacky then a commemorative plate with a giant eagle and flag silhouetted against the towers like you always see in ads? America has this "Always remember...but don't ever actually think deeply about 9/11" attitude that gets us so up in arms about things like this. Its a cake. Not the actual towers. Relax and have a slice

It is one person's tribute to something important to them. I do not think it is in bad taste. I think if there were poeple jumping out the building or the planes flying into them, or even if maybe the towers were smoking it would be bad judgement.

I have to agree with the people who've already said they think it's okay as long as it isn't actually supposed to be eaten (at least, the tower part...although eating any of it seems almost celebratory so it's kind of strange). At any rate, I think the baker probably meant well.

Ditto the Onion reference, which I remember well (that was one of the greatest issues ever because it just captured what reasonable people were all feeling that week).

Let's hope it was for decoration only, which would be bizarre.

On the other hand, maybe the baker was making an ironic statement about people who "feed" on others' catastrophe and all the surrounding melodrama. I've always hated this anniversary, partly because it forces me to relive it all over again in my head, and partly because I just can't stand the ghoulishness of the "Never Forget" crowd, the vast majority of whom did not have family members or even acquaintances who died that day.

I don't care about intentions, and I agree with the Pearl Harbor/Holocaust post. Whether or not the cake is meant to be eaten or for decoration - it's just in bad taste, period. You don't go and make a sugary treat out of a structure where thousands burned alive and many jumped to their deaths.

Do the bakers of these cakes ever show up to comment? A couple of people have said they know where it is from. I think it is a lovely tribute to the memory of the people lost. Cake is a valid medium in my mind. What I find offensive is people trying to remember the deaths of these people and not their lives. I hate roadside tributes commemorating the site of someone's demise for months or even years later. Remember the good they have done in their lives and save the flowers for people who are still with us and need the human contact. Of course the day is a sad one but the time has come for us to stop letting the shock tactic of the attack rule us. Sorry my rant wasnt all cakey.

I must say I'm far more offended by the idea of making cakes for the sole purpose of throwing them away than I am by making a cake shaped like anything. Wasting perfectly good food like that is just disgusting in a world where people are dying of starvation. It's a cake, it's edible whatever the hell is stuck on the top! Don't waste it!

WOW! Sure, the woman is talented, she knows her stuff. I'm sure that she baked and decorated this cake as an homage to our fallen heroes, with the most appropriate and patriotic respect in mind. Unfortunately, it was a gross error in judgment. I'm thinking of many historical events that our country honors that are too horrific to idolize on a cake. Let's keep 9/11 in our hearts and minds, not our tummies!

Umm, yeah, I actually work there and I am pretty embarrassed by that cake. Like, as in, I hope it goes away soon. The good news is that it's not a real cake, it's a dummy cake. The bad news is that it's on display because I'm pretty sure somebody commissioned this cake and our (fairly misguidedly) patriotic employers decided to put it on display as a testimony to our decorators' skill and to their own Americanism. So, yes. Pretty much on par with those folksy, old 18th century crocheted samplers prophesying doom. Definitely a fail.

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